North Portland's Amnesia Brewing will open new brewpub and brewery in downtown Washougal, Wash.

John Foyston, Special to the OregonianAdam Taylor (left), of Lone Wolf Investments, and Kevin King, owner/
brewer of Amnesia Brewing, raise a toast in Amnesia's North Portland pub. Lone Wolf developed Washougal Town Square and is working with Amnesia to bring a brewery and brewpub to the Washington town.

Amnesia Brewing, which helped revitalize Portland's North Mississippi Avenue as an early tenant a decade ago, now plans to do the same in downtown Washougal, Wash., with a new brewpub and production brewery.

Owner/brewer Kevin King is working with Lone Wolf Investments LLC, which built Washougal Town Square and which has several properties in Washougal, including the 5,500-square-foot former pawnshop at 1834 Main St. where Amnesia will locate. Plans call for a brewpub that'll accommodate 50 people to open this summer, and a production brewery with a 15-barrel (500-gallon) brew system to open late this year.

The pub will reprise the no-frills, urban/industrial character of the current pub, King says, though the beers will vary from those of the Mississippi Avenue location, which will continue to brew. Amnesia brewed 1,700 barrels (about 53,000 gallons) of beer last year. When the new brewery is online, annual capacity will nearly quadruple to 6,700 barrels, or more than 207,000 gallons.

Much of that will go to the restaurant and pub accounts Amnesia brewers are working overtime to supply, plus Amnesia will sell its beers in cans and bottles for the first time, King says. Amnesia is the most recent brewery to locate in the Columbia Gorge, joining a roster that includes Full Sail and Double Mountain in Hood River, Solera in Parkdale, Logsdon Farmhouse Brewery in Odell, Walking Man in Stevenson and Everybody's Brewing in White Salmon.